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Re:Pine64 September update by criddell on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:30AM (#24492501)
A smartphone by its nature is a surveillance device no matter what operating system is on it. As long as the cellular radio is on and you are connecting to towers, your location is being tracked.
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Re:Pine64 September update by fsflover on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:16AM (#24492899)
That's why Pinephone and Librem 5 have the killswitches.
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Re:Pine64 September update by criddell on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:22AM (#24493520)
You mean airplane mode? I think most phones can selectively turn off the cellular, wifi, and bluetooth radios.
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Re:Pine64 September update by fsflover on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:26AM (#24493569)
No, I mean hardware killswitches.

https://puri.sm/posts/lockdown-mode-on-the-librem-5-beyond-h...

https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone#Killswitch_confi...

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Re:Pine64 September update by jbob2000 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:22PM (#24494892)
All phones have hardware killswitches. It's called a dead battery.
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Re:Pine64 September update by boogies on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:26AM (#24505013)
How can you tell if the battery is dead in a phone that you don’t control? Take a heat gun to it to melt the glue, disassemble, and test the battery with a multimeter?
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